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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Pad the bill
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pad the bill
MEANING: add false expenses to a bill
EXAMPLE: The plumber who was fixing our plumbing system was padding the bill so we got another plumber.
Since "pad the bill" is an idiom, would it be wrong to say "our" in the example here instead of the?
pad the bill
MEANING: add false expenses to a bill
EXAMPLE: The plumber who was fixing our plumbing system was padding the bill so we got another plumber.
Since "pad the bill" is an idiom, would it be wrong to say "our" in the example here instead of the?
Top answer
Using "our" would be OK. We got another plumber because the one we had was padding our bill.
- Using "our" would be OK.
- We got another plumber because the one we had was padding our bill.
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Using "our" would be OK.
We got another plumber because the one we had was padding our bill.
We got another plumber because the one we had was padding our bill.
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